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CHASTITY BELT – ” Joke “

Posted: May 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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Filmed on the band’s Spring 2015 tour, this new music video offers a candid look at life on the road with Seattle band Chastity Belt. “Joke” can be heard on Time to Go Home, out now on Hardly Art records.Take earplugs, tampons, eat air when you’re hungry and never look fanboys in the eye are the Seattle girl band’s top tips for taking the gruelling out of touring, Straight out of Seattle’s DIY scene are Chastity Belt – a slacker rock band made up of friends and females Julia Shapiro, Lydia Lund, Annie Truscott and Gretchen Grimm. Their new album, “Time to Go Home”, includes an anti-slut-shaming anthem Cool Slut. The band made the video themselves and it includes a lot of footage of gals being gals, drinking wine, skipping, dancing, playing the harp, roller blading and playing the clarinet – just your typical gal stuff.

Chastity Belt’s latest creation is “Joke”, another perfect depiction of modern femininity. In their new video – premiered below – the band give a snapshot of life on the road: drinking, driving, working out, sinking celebratory shots and taking selfies.But what else can we learn from Chastity Belt about being band chicks? To help us out, the band have knocked together a failsafe girl guide to tour survival.

What to eat while on the road
Touring can be tough on the body. You’re immobile for hours, and filling stations don’t provide the healthy, zero-sugar, low-cal, gluten-free, vegan snacks that girls like us require. To keep down the cals, when I’m feeling hungry I like to take in a big breath of air.

What to pack
Loads and loads of tampons! On the road, it’s hard to keep track of what day it is. You never know when Aunt Flow is coming to town. Our van is stocked with supersized tampons and jumbo pads, just in case Flow shows up uninvited with hefty suitcases.

How to get your beauty sleep
Make sure to pack plenty of earplugs and eye pillows. With these two key items, you can sleep wherever you want, whenever you want. Never resist the urge to fall asleep, no matter the situation. If you’re feeling tired at a show, take a nap in the back corner of a venue: anything to prevent those nasty bags under your eyes.

How to deal with fans
Avoid eye contact, especially with fanboys. Engaging with fans even the slightest bit gives them a false sense that you are on their level. You are NOT on their level. Fans are untamed animals. You have to teach them that you are completely superior if you expect them to idolise you. Unless they’re hot, actually. In which case, definitely go talk to them.

The band are about to embark on a US tour with Courtney Barnett, before headlining eight UK shows in October.

CHASTITY BELT – ” Joke “

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Indie rockers Chastity Belt are fans of dark humor, and know just when to use it to their advantage. Case in point their new single “Joke”. Chastity Belt is not the kind of band to shy away from making a statement. Back in 2010, Julia Shapiro, Gretchen Grimm, Lydia Lund, and Annie Truscott formed the band in Walla Walla, Washington, and they’ve since relocated to Seattle where they’re part of the city’s thriving music scene. They sing about feeling antisocial in a place with a reputation for “social freeze,” chips and dip, and nip-slips—among other delights. One of their publicity shots ranked number one on a list of the most “painfully awkward band photos,” and they’ve earned a reputation for their tongue-in-cheek approach to pretty much everything.

The band’s first album, No Regerts was a gently sardonic (and well reviewed) gem, and on March 23rd, Chastity Belt will release their second album Time to Go Home, on Hardly Art. Take a first listen to their new track, “Joke,”

“Let’s light everything on fire,” singer Julia Shapiro utters matter-of-factly, plotting a perfectly sardonic escape plan for when life gets to be too much to handle. Later on the track (arguably the best off the forthcoming Time To Go Home LP), Chastity Belt’s strategy is put into motion, as the Seattle natives fade away into a blaze of dreamy and meandering guitars,

CHASTITY BELT – ” Time To Go Home “

Posted: February 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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The women of Chastity Belt hit the streets of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, searching for a good time in this woozy video for their song “Time to Go Home.” star as the coolest, most jaded band in the world as they wander around Seattle’s Capitol Hill in search of a meaningful night, in this Bobby McHugh-directed video for the group’s new single and one of our favorite jams of the year so far, “Time to Go Home.” Instead, they get wasted, take a few selfies, dance around with some shirtless dudes in Macklemore masks, then go home together and pass out. Actually, it does all feel kind of meaningful. Chastity Belt’s very tight track “Time to Go Home” LP is out on March 24th on Hardly Art Records.

CHASTITY BELT – ” Time To Go Home ” Best Albums Of 2105

Posted: January 9, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The last several days, a number of music blogs were abuzz with the song “Time To Go Home,” the title song to the new album by the Chastity Belt which came out on March 24th on Hardly Art records.
Featuring guitarists Julia Shapiro (the singer and primary songwriter) and Lydia Lund, bassist Annie Truscott, and drummer Gretchen Grimm, the band are from the Seattle area, Walla Walla, Washington. They released their debut album, “No Regrets”, which got favourable reviews when it was self-released in 2013, Then following two EPs they released in 2012 (available on their Bandcamp page). About their new album, The music is an indie-rock swirl of guitars and careening drums that recalls the team efforts of classic bands like the Raincoats.
title song “Time To Go.” It’s a heartfelt, straight forward rock and roll song, touched by punk, fuzzy guitars, and reverbed vocals that just hits all the right chords.

On the surface, Seattle punk band Chastity Belt is just plain silly. Its members wear mom jeans and turtle necks in its press shots, for crying out loud. But there’s more than just frivolous nostalgia at play on the group’s Hardly Art debut, Time to Go Home.

The song that rightfully gets the most attention is “Cool Slut,” as guitarist and vocalist Julia Schapiro trashes tired rock tropes that cast sexual conquests as a measure of manhood and point of shame for women. Satire gives way to solemnity on other standout tracks, as “IDC” (“I got drunk out of boredom/I did not want to be there”) and the title-track sum up the end of the night, when regret sets in and there’s a chance you’ll be holding back a puking friend’s hair.

While the lyrics are strong, the music itself will hook in repeat listeners. “Lydia” is wistful enough to have been from a popular indie songstresses’ songbook, while “The Thing” is lightning-fast West Coast punk that begins and ends with a blood-curdling scream. Sure, other well-written, feminist friendly albums have been released in 2015, but those artists are not likely as clever, fun, and free as these girls.

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CHASTITY BELT – ” Black Sail ”

Posted: April 28, 2014 in MUSIC
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the NO REGRETS album is out now released in the middle of last year from Julia Shapiro and her band, her former band Childbirth and this project have been performing in Seattle awhile now.

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